New England town honors Martin Luther King: Reverend Charles Styron leads townspeople in a community memorial service for Dr. Martin Luther King in front of the former Town Hall in Lincoln, Massachusetts yesterday. The Reverend Styron, Pastor of the First Parish Church (Unitarian-Universalist) read portions of Dr. King's Letter from Birmingham Jail.

On recto: typewritten title and date.
On verso: date stamp.

Wire photographs were originally transmitted over phonelines, then later, by satellite. They were first used in the early 1920s. Associated Press became a leader with this. After pigment touch-ups, etc., the print is put into a drum (like a drum scanner). The image gets converted into audio tones that are transmitted. The tones are received and beamed onto photo-sensitive paper. Wire photographs are copies without originals---they are hybrid, transmitted objects. (Britt Salvesen, Curator and Department Head, Photography Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 30-31, 2022)

This object has the following keywords:

• City halls
• Civil Rights Movements
• Injustice
• Lincoln
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Memorial services
• Racial Discrimination
• Reverend Charles Styron
• Street Scenes

• Image Dimensions: 7 1/8 x 9 11/16 in. (18.1 x 24.61 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin
• Sheet Dimensions: 7 5/16 x 9 3/4 in. (18.57 x 24.77 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin